Have you ever had a client looking over your shoulder asking when something will be done? Have you felt drips of sweat on your forehead as you had only a few minutes left to fix something in a project before an event starts? We know these can be stressful and have faced these time and…
On Saturday, we held the first ever Interactive & Immersive Championship. It was a blast. Wowwowowow. We had 29 talented TouchDesigner developers from all over the world competing across two different 1-hour challenges for their chance to show the world their work and win tons of prizes. We thought it’d be great to highlight some…
Engine COMP is shaping up in a way that will truly change the way we make TouchDesigner projects. The ability to control what aspects of our projects are on the main CPU thread or on a different one without having to go through the headache of creating totally new TouchDesigner projects is one of the…
While TouchDesigner is a real-time engine, there are tons of use cases where you might want to output video in TouchDesigner. This could be for rendering out previz for your client, making content for your website & Instagram, or giving your users a cool memory from their experience. Whatever the reason, it’s something you need…
I know we’ve been hush-hush about our “secret projects” and we said there was something big coming soon. In a recent interview with Robert at Contraption.pro, I mentioned that folks should be brushing off the dust on their skills and getting into top form and this is why: we’re launching The Interactive & Immersive Championship,…
TouchDesigner is a unique platform because there are so many ways to do any one thing. Not only that but there are tons of hotkeys for TouchDesigner and other tricks-of-the-trade that developers learn along the way. Most of these are shared between friends and colleagues and can sometimes pass under the radar even though they…
Documenting projects feels tough. It feels boring. It honestly is a chore for most people and because of that, it almost never gets done. I’m never surprised when I ask developers and artists if they have documentation of their projects and they say “no….not really…maybe a few pictures on my phone?” The only result of…
Time in TouchDesigner is a strange thing. Especially when it comes to the context of building projects that have time-based triggers or actions or scripts. Do you lock things to the timeline? Do you run Python scripts on delay? Do you lean into Timer CHOP? This is precisely the problem! There are so many different…
Over the past few Twitch streams, we’ve been working on building control panels for TouchDesigner using Node-red. This has been an interesting and exciting set of experiments for a lot of reasons. The main one being that Node-red is a node-based programming environment very similar to TouchDesigner. Without needing any long coding sessions in Javascript…
Who would have ever thought I’d be writing about how Skype might be a great option as a tool in our industry? Honestly, not me! But it happened. Microsoft added a pretty incredible feature to Skype that changes the game as far as I’m concerned. That feature is native NDI outputs of every single member…